Wealth manager Brown Shipley has appointed BNY Mellon veteran and CISI chairman Michael Cole-Fontayn as its new chairman in a move which will see current chair Rory Tapner become chair of parent company, the Luxembourg-based Quintet Private Bank.

Wealth manager Brown Shipley has completed its takeover of Cambridge and Norwich-based Financial Planner NW Brown to create a new East Anglian hub.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Brown Shipley, part of Quintet Private Bank, has recruited experienced planner Michelle Coulson as a client director for its London office.

KBL European Private Bankers, the parent of UK private bank and Financial Planner Brown Shipley, is to rebrand as Quintet.